id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_psvunlbkgrahjdrouojvvyifrm Constance J. Post Atlantic citizens: nineteenth-century American writers at work in the world 2015.0 2 .pdf application/pdf 818 31 43 Atlantic citizens: nineteenth-century American writers at work in the world, Leslie Although Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Grace Greenwood, and Walt Whitman as a group make strange bedfellows, Eckel asserts that their identity as citizens of the world rather than proponents Whitman's Leaves of Grass), Eckel illuminates their transatlantic affinities, albeit in She also finds that the transatlantic focus in Evangeline counters the idea of manifest destiny promoted by many writers of the period. as fully as Longfellow, two of them – Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass – reclaiming himself as a citizen of the USA despite his doubts about whether he actually had a country, as Eckel acknowledges. bent of Fuller and Douglass's interests, making Emerson – at least in Eckel's hands – While Eckel's treatment of the transatlantic affinities of these six writers may be a bit of a stretch in some instances, her study ./cache/work_psvunlbkgrahjdrouojvvyifrm.pdf ./txt/work_psvunlbkgrahjdrouojvvyifrm.txt